Extrasolar Planet Search Programme at
Haute-Provence Observatory

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Programme:

1.93-m telescope

A Geneva - Grenoble - Haute-Provence observatories collaboration

Members:

Geneva: Michel Mayor, Dominique Naef, Didier Queloz, Stephane Udry

Grenoble: Christian Perrier

Grenoble: Jean-Luc Beuzit

OHP: Jean-Pierre Sivan

Telescope: 1.93-m at OHP

Detector: Elodie
Elodie A&A paper (gzipped)

Time allocation: 1 week per month

Sample:

A sample of> 320 stars

Northern sky

Enlargement of the original Mayor-Queloz sample

Single star selection from CORAVEL

Magnitude limited: mv<7.65

Slow rotator selection: vsini<5km/s

Discoveries:

HD 209458

- A transiting Hot Jupiter

- First planetary mass-radius-density determination

- A Keck/HIRES-Elodie-Coralie result

- Elodie no 4

- Determinant Coralie follow up for transit time determination

14 Herculis

- The longest period to date

- 14 Her at OHP

Gliese 876

On the same telescope, by almost the same team (see the M-dwarf programmes):

- A planet around an M dwarf

- The closest extrasolar planet

- Gl 876 at OHP

51 Pegasi

- The first extrasolar planet around a solar-type star

- 51 Peg at OHP

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